Gladys Romney

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• Obituary: 30 Aug 2011, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; Deseret News

Notes:

Obituary:
Gladys Romney Loveless passed away peacefully on August 27, 2011.

She was born August 6, 1923 to Frank and Gladys Romney in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico. Her mother passed away when Gladys was twelve and she assumed responsibility for her six siblings. She attended Juarez Academy until the family moved to Payson in 1939, where she graduated from Payson High School.

She met her sweetheart, Ned, and they were married on November 17, 1941 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She loved music and sang with the Salt Lake Oratorio Society and Singing Mothers, but her life was devoted to her family and working at the side of her husband. She and Ned served a mission in North Carolina and also worked for many years in the Manti Temple.

She is survived by her children, Terrill (John) Sperry, Lloyd (Diane) Loveless, Duane (Sandra) Loveless, Darlene (Bryce, dec.) Loveless, Warren (Cathy) Loveless, Craig (Karen) Loveless, Kurt (Hilda) Loveless, Mark (Dell) Loveless, Kaye (Reed) Hammond; forty-eight grandchildren; and eighty-five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ned; sons, Bryce and Donald.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. in the Payson Mountain View Sixth Ward Chapel (789 East Arrowhead Trail). There will be a viewing held on Wednesday night from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the church as well as one hour prior to the services on Thursday.

Interment will be held in the Redwood Memorial Estates Cemetery (6500 South Redwood Road (1700 West)) at approximately 2:30 p.m.

Gladys married Ned Tillman Loveless 17 Nov 1941, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT. Ned (son of Vaughn Tillman Loveless and Laurel E. Dimick) was born 20 Dec 1917, Payson, Utah Co., UT; died 4 Jun 2001, Payson, Utah Co., UT; was buried 8 Jun 2001, Redwood Memorial Cemetery, West Jordan, Salt Lake Co., UT. [Group Sheet]

1. Terrill Loveless
2. Lloyd Tillman Loveless
3. Duane Ned Loveless
4. Bryce Romney Loveless was born 18 Jun 1948, Payson, Utah Co., UT; died Bef 2001.
5. Warren Romney Loveless
6. Donald Romney Loveless was born 19 Jun 1955; died 28 Dec 1978; was buried 1 Jan 1979, Redwood Memorial Cemetery, West Jordan, Salt Lake Co., UT.
7. Craig Romney Loveless
8. Kurt Romney Loveless
9. Mark Romney Loveless
10. Kaye Loveless

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• Residence: Jun 1955, Syracuse, Davis Co., UT

Frank married Gladys Walker McAllister 31 Aug 1922, Saint George, Washington Co., UT. Gladys (daughter of Joseph Warrington McAllister and Agatha Abigail Walker) was born 8 Apr 1900, Saint George, Washington Co., UT; died 12 Oct 1935, Colonia Dublán, Galeana Municipality, Chihuahua, México; was buried 13 Oct 1935, Colonia Dublán Cemetery, Colonia Dublán, Galeana Municipality, Chihuahua, México. [Group Sheet]

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• 1850 Census: 1850, Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory
• Newspaper Article: 2008, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA; Boston Globe

Notes:

Newspaper Article:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/7207/romney.htm
http://history.utah.gov/FindAids/C00238/C0238ff.XML

After Elder Miles P. Romney returned from his mission in England he built a home in the Seventeenth Ward in Salt Lake City, Utah. Scarcely had it been completed when he, at the request of President Brigham Young, was to take a second wife. The marriage occurred in March 23, 1867, and the bride was Carrie Lambourne, a very beautiful young woman.

It was common for church members to take plural wives when instructed to do so by their ecclesiastical superiors. If the prophet asked you to take a plural wife, it would be hard for a devout Mormon to disobey. This quote shows how the Utah saints viewed polygamy as a deeply religious commitment, and how they connected it with their first prophet, Joseph Smith.

Incidentally, the marriage with Carrie Lambourne did not endure; she later separated from Miles Park Romney, and married a man named Abraham Meackin in Salt Lake City.

1850 Census:
p. 50
Miles Romney     44  M  Joiner  $200   England
Elizabeth             43  F                            "
Elizabeth             17  F                            "
Sarah                  15  F                            "           school
Joseph                13  M                            "              "
Brigham               11  M                            "              "
Miles P.                  8  M                          Ill:              "
Heber                    7  M                           "               "
Hiram                     5  M                           "              
Mary Ann              3  F                           Mo
Jane                  5/12  F                          Des

Newspaper Article:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/articles/part2_main/?page=6

Addition to a marriage

It was then, in 1867, that Miles P. Romney had a fateful meeting with Young.

''Brother Miles P., I want you to take another wife,'' Young requested, according to Hannah's autobiography.

Miles faced the choice of obeying US law, under which polygamy was illegal, or the head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He chose the church.

Hannah was distraught.

''I felt that was more than I could endure, to have him divide his time and affections,'' Hannah wrote later. ''I used to walk the floor and shed tears of sorrow. If anything will make a woman's heart ache, it is for her husband to take another wife, but I put my trust in my Heavenly Father and prayed and pleaded with him to give me strength to bear this great trial.''

Then Hannah performed her duty: she prepared a room for her husband's new wife, Caroline Lambourne. Hannah wrote, ''I was able to live in the principle of polygamy and give my husband many wives.'' But her despair deepened when her younger daughter died at 10 months.

Soon, Young gave Miles and his two wives a new mission: sell your home, and move to the southern Utah town of St. George. The new settlement about 300 miles south of Salt Lake was in a vast desert, surrounded by red-toned ridges in a region where summer temperatures often topped 100 degrees.

Young prophesied that, ''There will yet be built between these volcanic ridges, a city, with spires and towers and steeples, with homes containing many inhabitants.'' The Romneys sold their Salt Lake City home and moved to St. George, where they lived ''in a little shanty, a small board room, and a wagon box,'' Hannah wrote.

From the shanty, the Romneys wrote themselves into church history as builders. Miles played a major role in the construction of St. George Temple. Then, Brigham Young hired Miles to build a two-story addition to his winter home in St. George. Miles took on the task with zeal, constructing one of the most lavish residences in Utah, a sandstone brick dwelling with an elaborate porch painted red and green. The restored home is visited today by Mormons from around the world, who are told of Miles's role in building the house. Pictures of Young and Romney hang in an adjoining building.

But while Miles was prospering as a builder, he had increasing trouble handling two wives. Hannah wrote that Caroline ''was very jealous of me. ..... She wanted all my husband's attention. When she couldn't get it there was always a fuss in the house. [Miles], being a just man, didn't give way to her tantrums.''

Miles and Caroline had two children, whom Hannah agreed to care for. But Caroline was not satisfied. She asked Young for permission to return to her parents in Salt Lake City. The separation was ''the severest trial ever experienced'' by Miles, according to ''Life Story of Miles Park Romney,'' written by his son, Thomas. Miles and Hannah ''made a special trip of three hundred miles by wagon to try to induce Carrie to return to her home in Saint George. But all their pleadings were in vain,'' and a divorce was granted, according to the biography.

For a brief time, with Caroline having left, Miles and Hannah were once again in a single-wife marriage. It was then, in 1871, that Hannah gave birth to Gaskell, the grandfather of Mitt Romney.

MIles married Annie Marie Woodbury 1 Aug 1877, Saint George, Washington Co., UT. Annie (daughter of Orin Nelson Woodbury and Ann Cannon) was born 14 Oct 1858, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; died 14 Jan 1930, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; was buried 17 Jan 1930, Wasatch Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Alice Marie Woodbury

Joseph married Agatha Abigail Walker 27 Jan 1885, Saint George, Washington Co., UT. Agatha (daughter of Charles Lowell Walker and Abigail "Anna" Middlemas) was born 16 Oct 1866, Saint George, Washington Co., UT; died 26 Jan 1947, Saint George, Washington Co., UT; was buried 29 Jan 1947, Saint George City Cemetery, Saint George, Washington Co., UT. [Group Sheet]

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• 1880 Census: 1 Jun 1880, Saint George, Washington Co., UT

Notes:

1880 Census:
ED 93 , p. 4
Walker, C. L.   W  M  47   Head  Md   Stone Cutter         England        Nova Scotia  England
---, Anna         W  F  38    Wife  Md   Keeping House     Nova Scotia  England        Nova Scotia
---, Sarah        W  F  22    Wife  Md   Keeping House     UT                 England        England
---, Zadee        W  F  16    Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Ida              W  F  15    Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Agatha       W  F  13    Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Annie          W  F  11   Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Ellenore       W  F    9   Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, C. M.            W  M   6   Son   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Joseph        W  M   1   Son   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia

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• 1850 Census: 1850, Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory

Notes:

1850 Census:
p. 50
Miles Romney     44  M  Joiner  $200   England
Elizabeth             43  F                            "
Elizabeth             17  F                            "
Sarah                  15  F                            "           school
Joseph                13  M                            "              "
Brigham               11  M                            "              "
Miles P.                  8  M                          Ill:              "
Heber                    7  M                           "               "
Hiram                     5  M                           "              
Mary Ann              3  F                           Mo
Jane                  5/12  F                          Des

Miles married Elizabeth Gaskell 16 Nov 1830, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England, UK. Elizabeth was born 8 Jan 1809, Dalton in Furness, Lancashire, England, UK; died 11 Oct 1884, Saint George, Washington Co., UT; was buried Aft 11 Oct 1884, Saint George City Cemetery, Saint George, Washington Co., UT. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• 1850 Census: 1850, Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory

Notes:

1850 Census:
p. 50
Miles Romney     44  M  Joiner  $200   England
Elizabeth             43  F                            "
Elizabeth             17  F                            "
Sarah                  15  F                            "           school
Joseph                13  M                            "              "
Brigham               11  M                            "              "
Miles P.                  8  M                          Ill:              "
Heber                    7  M                           "               "
Hiram                     5  M                           "              
Mary Ann              3  F                           Mo
Jane                  5/12  F                          Des

Orin married Ann Cannon 17 Feb 1853, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT. Ann (daughter of George Cannon and Ann Quayle) was born 28 Jan 1832, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK; was christened 27 Feb 1832, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK; died 25 Jul 1921, Saint George, Washington Co., UT; was buried 28 Jul 1921, Saint George, Washington Co., UT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
She was a daughter of George Cannon and Ann Quayle.

Other Events:

• 1880 Census: 1 Jun 1880, Saint George, Washington Co., UT
• Obituary: 18 Jan 1904, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT; Deseret Evening News

Notes:

Son of William Gibson Walker and Mary Godwin

Married Sarah Smith, 12 Jan 1877, St George, Washington, Utah

Children - Lowell Walker; Moroni Smith Walker; Luella Walker; Effie Walker; Seth Godwin Walker; Mary Walker; Irene Walker

Married Abigail Middlemas, 28 Sep 1861, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

History - Charles was one of the foremost of the Mormon pioneer diary keepers in the nineteenth-century Mormon church, as well as being the "Poet Laureate" of the Cotton Country Mission.

His father's family was converted to Mormonism in Manchester, after which Charle's oldest sister Ann Agatha came to America, where she became a plural wife of Parley P. Pratt. The remainder of Charles's family immigrated to St. Louis in 1850, where his mother died of typhus fever. Charles had preceded them to St. Louis in 1849 with a friend.

Charles remained in the Illinois and Missouri area working, trying to find a means to travel to Utah. In April 1855 he engaged to drive a horse team for P. Burgess, who was bringing a threshing machine and other merchandise to Utah. Charles arrived in the valley September 3, 1855; being a large and well-built man, he went to work at blacksmithing.

From this time on, for the rest of his life, Charles kept an ongoing journal, in which he expressed his thoughts and feelings as well as keeping abreast of current happenings. He was not professionally trained in writing, being self-educated from reading in scripture and literature at home. However, his journal and other writings reflect Mormon issues as well as political and other areas of learning in a readable style like few other writings of pioneer culture.

On September 28, 1861, Charles married Abigail Middlemiss, whose family had come from Pope's Harbor, Nova Scotia. In 1862, at the October conference, Charles and 200 other missionaries were called to go to the "cotton country" mission in southern Utah. He left with his wife on November 13 and arrived December 9, 1862. His first impression was that it was a "barren looking place...very windy, dusty, blowing nearly all the time." In what was to become St. George, Charles built up his holdings during the first six months he was there, "building me a home, fencing and grubbing my city lot, planting, irrigating and working in the blacksmith shop for B. F. Pendleton" and later with Melanchton Burgess....

As St. George grew, Charles became integrated into its society. He joined a literary club, which printed a small newspaper, "The Veprecula; he attended lectures on various historical, geographical, business, and scientific subjects; and discussed current concerns with others in the community in meetings. In the harsh circumstances of the desert country where nature was often unsympathetic, Charles continually calmed and counseled the pioneers with his prose, often in the form of songs, as well as using his talents for appropriate occasions such as funerals, marriages and birthdays.

Charles was also a part of the events of the period. On November 5, 1871, the people voted to build a temple, the first on in Utah, in St. George, and Charles was a conscientious worker on the temple. he wrote also on May 23, 1872, that the "mason work on the meeting house was completed.... I have worked on this building for over five years, from putting in the foundation to the capstone on the tower. many weary toilsome days have I labored in the St. Geroge tabernacle, lifting the heavy rocks in the wind, dust, cold and scorching heat of this climate, yet I have felt happy and contented."

Charles L. Walker died January 11, 1904. His life was an example of that type of men who sacrificed their person pusuits to a large measure to contribute their talesn and energy for their church beliefs. by Daniel McAllister

1880 Census:
ED 93 , p. 4
Walker, C. L.   W  M  47   Head  Md   Stone Cutter         England        Nova Scotia  England
---, Anna         W  F  38    Wife  Md   Keeping House     Nova Scotia  England        Nova Scotia
---, Sarah        W  F  22    Wife  Md   Keeping House     UT                 England        England
---, Zadee        W  F  16    Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Ida              W  F  15    Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Agatha       W  F  13    Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Annie          W  F  11   Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Ellenore       W  F    9   Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, C. M.            W  M   6   Son   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Joseph        W  M   1   Son   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia

Obituary:
Obituary - Deseret Evening News
January 18, 1904
Page 9

Charles L. Walker, the Dixie Poet, and Others Summoned
Special Correspondence

St. George, Washington Co., Jan. 13 - This afternoon at 2 p.m. the funeral services of Charles Lowell Walker, our Dixie poet, who died Monday night, were held in the stake tabernacle. The speakers, Elder Jas. L. Bunting, President D. H. Cannon, President Edw. H. Snow, and Elder Jas. G. Bleak, each spoke briefly of his faithful and exemplary life.

Deceased was born March 17, 1832, in Leek, Staffordshire, England, and later moved to Manchester, where his parents received the Gospel. He was baptized by his father, Wm. Walker, April 22, 1845, and emigrated in February, 1849, but did not reach Salt Lake City until September, 1855.

He married Abigail Middlemas in 1861, and the following year was called to St. George, where he has since resided. He labored as a stone cutter on the St. George stake tabernacle and on the St. George and Manti temples. He was called as a temple worker in 1883, and has done much work for the dead.

He was universally loved and respected and will be greatly missed from the gatherins of the Saints. Probably his best known poetical production is the Sunday school hymn, "Dearest Children, God is Near You." He leaves behind a numerous posterity.

Died:
Ancestry.com. Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
Name:Charles Lowell Walker
Birth Date:abt 1831
Age:73
Gender:Male
Death Date:11 Jan 1904
Death or Registration Place:Washington, Utah, USA

Charles married Abigail "Anna" Middlemas 28 Sep 1861, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT. Abigail was born 1 Feb 1842, Pope's Harbor, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, Canada; died 28 Apr 1931, Saint George, Washington Co., UT; was buried 29 Apr 1931, Saint George City Cemetery, Saint George, Washington Co., UT. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• 1880 Census: 1 Jun 1880, Saint George, Washington Co., UT

Notes:

Birth:
Daughter of Edward Middlemas and Abigail Keeler.

1880 Census:
ED 93 , p. 4
Walker, C. L.   W  M  47   Head  Md   Stone Cutter         England        Nova Scotia  England
---, Anna         W  F  38    Wife  Md   Keeping House     Nova Scotia  England        Nova Scotia
---, Sarah        W  F  22    Wife  Md   Keeping House     UT                 England        England
---, Zadee        W  F  16    Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Ida              W  F  15    Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Agatha       W  F  13    Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Annie          W  F  11   Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Ellenore       W  F    9   Dau   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, C. M.            W  M   6   Son   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia
---, Joseph        W  M   1   Son   S                                  UT                 England        Nova Scotia